Pantry recipe

Iced Green Tea with Pineapple and Mint

Refreshing and lightly sweet, with fresh mint on top.

15 min 2 glasses · 500 ml Iced Caffeinated Easy

Ingredients

250 mlwater at 80 °C
2 bags or 4 ggreen tea
1 cupdiced pineapple
250 mlice-cold water
6 leavesmint
1 tbsphoney
to tasteice

Method

  1. Steep the green tea in the 80 °C water for 2½ minutes. Strain and stir in the honey.
  2. Blend the pineapple with the ice-cold water and strain.
  3. Lightly bruise the mint in the glasses, add ice, the pineapple juice and the tea. Stir and serve.

Tip: Boiling water makes green tea bitter. No thermometer? Wait 3 minutes after the water boils.

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